Oakham Town Council Meeting Report

Last nights Oakham Town Council meeting was slovenly chaired by Deputy Mayor Cllr Charles Haworth, slurping away at his diet pepsi throughout the evening.

Members present voted to reject the clerks budget because of its 2.2% precept increase.

Deputy Mayor Charles Haworth voted for the increase, he had suggested at a previous meeting we should increase the tax on the public so we could continue the councils good works. ho! ho! ho! Sometime I am sure there is whiskey mixed in his pepsi I did ask once why it was a strange colour?

Its not a easy job for the clerk to set a budget when the council has no plan.

Members decided to once again exclude me from assisting in any role at the council. I offered to help on the tourism and promotion of Oakham working group. The same group is organising the Queens jubilee party in Cutts Close, I would have liked to have assisted in any small way. Now I shall have to turn up and photograph them instead!

I told councillors I was unhappy with their continued attempts to exclude me and mentioned this action was mentioned in the hate letters I receive, Cllr Haworth said we don't care about your letters. Clearly showing what a nasty inhumane person he is. I am told he is also gay, I wonder how he would feel if it was him being attacked?

The council then gave Oakham Town Partnership £800 of tax payers for Christmas, just like Oakham Festival the Town Partnership does not have to tell the council how it will spend its money. We were told there would be no live music because it was no good last Christmas shopping night and they had not decided what to do instead. but could we give them the money anway? So members agreed to give them £800 I ensured my objection was minuted because I most certainly don't want to be charged with miss-appropriation of public funds. Oakham Town Councillors forget so often they should be accountable.

Cllr Alfred Dewis and Cllr John Nowell are both members of Oakham Town Partnership and both refused to declare an interest. Of course Rutland County Council Standards will ignore this.

The Council also decided to hold a special meeting at 7.00pm on the 9th November so the tennis club can give presentation about the floodlights they want to install. The same time limit will also be given to the objecting residents.

Also at the meeting, I said the main issue of the working groups to me was I have to read the local paper to know what the council was planning, example the booking of Wrinkle Rock, Cllr Charles Haworth said there was no mention of what was planned for next years party and as normal suggested I was lying, Something I don't do. The two main working groups are clearly functioning as a second council.


Published Rutland Mercury Saturday 1 October 2011 09:00
PEOPLE are being urged to get involved in celebrations for the Queen’s jubilee next year.
Oakham Town Council has set aside £5,000 for a celebration in Cutts Close, Oakham, on June 5 and is appealing for groups, businesses and organisations to support it.
There will be music, food and entertainments at the event, which the council is hoping will attract everyone..........
Music will be provided by Wrinkle Rock who played in Cutts Close this summer to a huge crowd. Food will be provided by the Lions Club of Rutland.
Deputy mayor Charles Haworth, of Barleythorpe Road, Oakham, said it would be a memorable afternoon with something for people of all ages to enjoy and celebrate the jubilee.
“Primary school children will be involved and we hope to give the town a day that people will remember and treasure,” he said.
“The council is keen to hear from any organisations that would like to sponsor or get involved in the event.”

PS they are only after your cash!  As I said earlier in this post I offered to join the group to assist and was turned down.

The event is being organised with no public consultation behind closed doors for them and their cronies, I will look forward to photographing the ex councillor, drinking beer and dragging his wife around for all to see (sorry dancing) and then endure listening to his two page letter being read out at the following council meeting, thanking the councillors for spending tax payers money on something he enjoyed with his wife, after reading it in the Rutland Times, Just as it was this year. Normally if a member of the public writes to the council I would be surprised if I would be told a letter had even been received, but as this ex councillor is so important! its read out in a council meeting. I would like to know how much we are paying wrinkle rock to perform next year (they good friends of the ex councillor) it was around £500 this summer.